Register variation remains stable across 60 languages

Metacognitive (Rending) Strategies Across Languages and Techniques

Accounting for Variation Across Languages: A Constraint-Based Perspective

Much of the research on sentence processing has focused on discovering universal principles to explain parsing preferences. Recent cross-linguistic work, however, suggests that processing is sensitive to distributional information about individual languages. Along these lines, we explore a constraint-based approach to processing, in which cross-linguistic variation is explained by the interacti...

Talker discrimination across languages

This study investigated the extent to which listeners are able to discriminate between bilingual talkers in three language pairs English-German, English-Finnish and English-Mandarin. Native English listeners were presented with two sentences spoken by bilingual talkers and were asked to judge whether they thought the sentences were spoken by the same person. Equal amounts of cross-language and ...

Entity Clustering Across Languages

Standard entity clustering systems commonly rely on mention (string) matching, syntactic features, and linguistic resources like English WordNet. When co-referent text mentions appear in different languages, these techniques cannot be easily applied. Consequently, we develop new methods for clustering text mentions across documents and languages simultaneously, producing cross-lingual entity cl...

Trail making across languages.

The effects of different language backgrounds on trail making tasks were examined in this study. The measures adopted were the Color Trails Test (CTT) and the Trail Making Test (TMT), the former being the culturally fair analogue of the latter. Eighty-four right-handed participants belonging to the Chinese-English Bilingual (CEB) and English Monolingual (EM) groups participated in this study. T...